Family friend, Kate Olin writes that Hannah died at 10:20 pm Friday surrounded by family and friends. The family thanked “the doctors, nurses and staff at Beaufort Memorial Hospital and the Medical University of South Carolina who worked so hard to help her to overcome the infection. We also want to thank and Todd MacLaughlan and the people at Profounda in Florida for everything they did in the middle of the night, to get the medicine that Hannah needed up to Charleston.”

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[…] Sadly, 11-year-old Beaufort, South Carolina girl, Hannah Collins, passed away last evening after a battle with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by the lethal parasite, Naegleria fowleri, according to a family statement published in a local news source. Family friend, Kate Olin writes that Hannah died at 10:20 pm Friday surrounded by family and friends. The family […] Blogs – Outbreak News Today […]